NEW York – Egg prices again reached a record level in February, where bird flu continues to operate the Easter and Easter approach.
The last monthly consumer price index showed that dozens of eggs are a average of $ 5.90 in American cities in February, an increase of 10.4 % from last year. This high $ 4.95 in January.
Bird flu forced farmers to slaughter more than 166 million birds, most of them chicken that lay eggs. Since the beginning of the year, more than 30 million egg layers have been killed.
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If the prices remain high, the third year in a row will have faced stickers shock before Easter on April 20 and Easter, which begins on the evening of April 12, when eggs play prominent roles.
The price constantly was less than $ 2 for contracts for contracts before the disease collided. The US Department of Agriculture expects that egg prices will rise by 41 % this year over the average last year of $ 3.17 per scales.
But there may be light at the end of the tunnel. The US Department of Agriculture stated last week that egg deficiency is abandoned and that wholesale prices are declining, which may provide relief from the partial sale side before late Easter this year, which is three weeks from last year. He said there was no great outbreak of the flood in birds for two weeks.
The US Department of Agriculture wrote in the March 7 report: “Shoppers began seeing the eggs of the eggs in the dairy box that became more reliable, although the retail levels have not yet adapted and remain outside for many.”
David Anderson, professor and economist for livestock and food marketing at the University of Texas A and M., said that the figures that decreased are a good sign that prices may decrease as shoppers benefit with the high prices by buying fewer eggs.
“What should tell us about is that things are slightly reduced in terms of prices,” he said. “Therefore, the following CPI report may indicate low egg prices.”
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However, he does not expect permanent changes until bird stocks can be renewed and production can be replaced.
He said: “The record number of high prices is the market signal for producers to produce more, but it takes some time to be able to produce more, and we have not enough time until that happened yet.” “But I think it will happen. But it will take to get there.”
Emily Metz, President and CEO of the American Bay Council, said that the decrease in wholesale prices is good news, but noted that the increase in demand for Easter may lead to a temporary increase in prices.
She said: “In addition, egg farmers closely monitor the spring migration of wild birds, with the realization that wild birds are a major cause of the spread of this virus and pose a major and continuous threat to the herds that laid the eggs.”
Da`wah and others also called for achieving whether egg producers used bird flu to pricing prices. But egg producers say that bird flu is only behind the high prices.
Meanwhile, restaurants added additional fees and made other changes to compensate for the cost of eggs.
The Trump administration has revealed a plan to combat bird flu, including an investment of $ 500 million to help farmers to enhance biological security measures, $ 400 million as additional aid to farmers whose herds were affected by bird flu, and $ 100 million to search and perhaps vaccines and treatment in the dimensions of American chicken, among other measurements. But it is likely that it takes some time for that plan to make an effect.
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